I'm wondering how/if I can remove certain projects from the navigator menu in Eclipse? I'm in uni and I have multiple projects with similar names because of how I have to name files for labs, and it gets cluttered having so many projects showing. I was wondering if there was a way to remove them from the navigator without actually deleting them, that way I could hide the ones from last semester.
The Navigator view is old one. You can hide some predefined resources from it but not projects.
Better use Project explorer/Package explorer view.
First close the projects you want to hide in Project explorer/Package explorer view then refer this blog to hide them
Note that closing the projects also makes eclipse to work faster.
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The Situation:
Suddednly, one of projects I work with, is seen in a very shorten way in the Project tool window :
.hgignore
.hgtags
External libraries
Those are all visible things in the Project tool window. On the main frame the file I worked with is shown. And all its path is seen in the navigation bar. From the navigation bar I can reach to all folders of the project. (It is a VERY large utility project, containing all static pages, images and things for many usual projects). Naturally, I would like to work normally, using Projects tool window. But there, as you can see, all folders are invisible.
Opening/closing of project tool window, IntelliJ restart or cach invalidate and restart won't help - the picture remains the same.
If I am adding a module to the project, it IS seen. If I am adding a folder to the project, it is NOT seen. All existing inner structure in the project is in folders, not modules.
The Possible Reasons of the broke:
All changes that I had made to the project by hand, is adding an image file. But from TortoiseHg I had made some updates. For other projects. That very project is not even in the Tortoise list of repositories. But as I had loaded the project from repository sometimes, it is known by hg. All other team members see the project normally.
Target:
I would like to see the project back in all its beauty.
Is it possible to hide folder in Visual Studio 2012 solution explorer window? I have multiple folders/files that I don't plan to use and they are just cluttering the interface and it's harder to find things.
It just seems pretty illogical that you can toggle "Show Hidden Files" but you cannot actually hide any files.
Example
Why
WebApi project includes automated help generation that I want to use, however it includes multiple folders that it needs to function. All I care about is Controllers/Models since I'm building the Api itself. But if I delete/remove from project those files than help generator won't work.
Since you want the files to still be accessible, as opposed to just excluding them, you can modify the csproj file itself. Unload your project from the solution, right-click and select edit. Scroll down to where your folders are displayed (I tested with a folder called "TestFolder" and a file within it called TestClass.cs.
<Compile Include="TestFolder\TestClass.cs">
<SubType>Code</SubType>
</Compile>
Create a new child tag called Visible and set the value to false.
<Compile Include="TestFolder\TestClass.cs">
<Visible>false</Visible>
<SubType>Code</SubType>
</Compile>
Save and reload the project and the files should no longer be visible but accessible. I just did a quick test and it seemed to work fine (but YMMV).
Hiding folders is almost certainly a bad idea. Remember that hiding a folder is not the same as excluding it from the solution - all hidden items can still be used elsewhere in the code, can be referenced by the build, and get updated when you pull the latest version from source control.
That is the reason why it was never available for project folders - so that people cannot easily confuse their workmates.
Having said that, it is possible to hide folders on the solution level - I guess mostly because it's quite common to have documentation, shared libraries etc on that level. To hide a solution folder, you right click on the folder, and select "Hide Folder" (to unhide, you'd right click on the solution itself and select "Unhide folders")
As for your screenshot where you want to hide Area, Scripts etc - I suspect you're working alone and just started learning MVC - otherwise it wouldn't make sense to hide those folders. They contain legitimate code which is used to run the application. Hiding it is the same as hiding Program.cs in a console project for the sole reason that you prefer a smaller tree in the solution.
I do agree that Solution Explorer becomes unmanageable at some point - but instead of messing up with it, I'd recommend to try other tools - Visual Studio "navigate to" options or Resharper (I use the latter).
I don't know if it's the same way in VS 2012, but in VS 2010, I just right click on the folders (and, in some cases, files) that I don't want and exclude them from the solution.
I'm not sure if this is a new feature but you can hide folders from solution explorer without excluding or deleting them.
On VS 2017 (15.5.5)
Just right click on any solution folder and click "Hide Folder"
In Xcode I use a task-based tabbed workflow (a separate tab for editing, UI/Modeling, building, debugging, etc.). I accomplish this using Behaviors (see the Custom section in the attached screen shot). When I create a new Project I use press ⌘+1, ⌘+2, etc. to quickly setup all of my task tabs.
My issue is that when I do this for a newly created Project all of the tabs display the source, storyboards, etc. from my most recently open Project. How often do you think this is useful or the desired behavior? I realize that one of the great things about tabs is that they remember their state and this is helpful. But as far as the source files that are initially displayed, this is a real pain. I do not want to see files from other (generally unrelated) projects.
Now what I just did as an experiment was open Project A and setup all of my tabs and ensured that each tab contained a source file from Project A. Then I quit Xcode and moved Project A a new location on the file system. When I opened Project B and created all of my tabs they were, as desired, empty.
I realize that I'm just going to receive the canonical "File a Radar" here but in the off chance that there is a workaround (NOT moving files) or a preference I could set, I figured I'd at least ask.
Thanks in advance,
CS
As I compare many C# example projects to my VB.NET projects, I see that the References folder shows in the Solution Explorer without having to select "Show All Files". Is it possible to have this for a VB.NET project as well? I find that it would be very helpful to have this folder displayed without having to see all the other hidden files as well.
I'm using VS2010 Professional.
This adds to my list of reasons why I should have learned C# first...
I guess I will have to definitively crush your dream. Sorry. It has been a decision by Microsoft to remove this from the default view to reduce the 'clutter'. However, your 'Show All Files' setting will persist when you save your project. So if you show all files once and then save, then it will always be on.
You can also see your References in the Project designer, which you can always keep open in a tab.
As of Visual Studio 2015, this behavior has been changed to show the References folder without selecting Show All Files.
From MSDN:
What’s new is the References node. This used to be hidden and you had to click Show All Files to see it—but that also showed lots of irrelevant files.
This previous behavior might have made sense 10 years ago when you’d start with a Windows Forms project and it would generally have the right set of references. But it’s a reality of modern development nowadays that the References node is used frequently—especially to manage NuGet references. It’s a small but handy convenience to be able to find it easily in Solution Explorer.
I add a separate folder called Dependencies, add my dll's to it and check them in as described here. That way my dll's are always visible in the Solution explorer without having to turn on Show All Files.
Select 'Show All Files option' in the solution explorer.
I'm working on an IronPython project on VS2010 and I've notice that for the python project (which is setup as a Console project, but really just contains a number of scripts that are hosted in a C# app), everything that is in the project directory will show up in the VS solution explorer under that project. So, for example, the .svn folder shows up. Which I obviously don't want or need to be there.
Is there any way to tell it to hide specific items? I sure can't find one.
Currently we have a directory based project system - which as you have seen includes all of the files in the project dir. We were planning on having an exclude option but the feedback we've been hearing so far is that we should move to a normal VS project model where you need to explicitly add the files. The next CTP release (which should be out in a week or so) will change to a normal project model.
There does still seem to be some interest in the directory based model so we may bring it back via an option in a future version.
You should be able to just right click the folder, choose "Exclude from Project"
Then, make sure "Show all files" is NOT on at the top, by the solution.